central florida, which is picking citrus. when he got out into the groves in the way that he did, he began to realize that they were being greatly taken advantage of. the working conditions were poor and the pay was worse. they were being paid 10 to 12 cents a box for many, many -- for dangerous work going into the 30-foot trees on spliced ladders, on limbs where sometimes people would fall in the process of trying to pick. and he began to try to organize the pickers, because this was world war ii, to make a little bit more money. he would be asking for a nickel more a box as opposed to the 10 or 15 cents. and this was a time when each of those boxes was commanding $3 or $4 on the open market once they ultimately sold. so, he was just asking for a nickel more. and he would go, and he would speak on behalf of all the pickers. he had a very hard time keeping them organized. i mean, all of them wanted to say, well, while we're here, why don't we just go ahead and pick. and he'd have to keep them at bay to say, well, you know, it